The section attached to the camera is described as a 'FPC extension cable'. Extension implies that it is detachable, though I don't know whether you could or should do so. Researching the camera module (an OmniVision OV7251) on Google Images though, it was never shown without a cable attached to it.

I do not understand what you mean. The bottom cable has pins which this top half fits in to. The top half has the camera. I have attached 2 pics for the camera. One shows the top cable that should fit into the bottom cable that is attached to the Intel Aero board.

I was talking about the top cable and if the camera is hidden behind the small black cover or is this how it is.

The VGA camera (the second picture from reply 4) should be connected to the port farthest to the right of the Intel Aero, taking as reference the first picture of reply 4.In regards to the size, I believe that the size of each frame is returned as an output each time a new frame is taken. If you look in the community for threads where users successfully manage to take pictures, you can see a variable called m_sizeimage, which value is 462848.

The way to tell if the camera is operational is through the console. Whenever the camera is taking pictures, you’ll see the program output the preview mode as well as a confirmation that there are files being created.

The setup we use is very similar to yours. In your case, you connect the camera to an expansion cable that goes to the Aero. In our case, the camera is directly connected to the Aero.

The VGA camera is capable of streaming. You can use a package such as ffmpeg to test the streaming capabilities of the camera. You can see more of what ffmpeg can do here: https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html .

Once everything is setup, you can start using the camera. We have taken some pictures to see the results. The command used to take pictures is:C=10 INPUT=0 MODE=PREVIEW capture_example --userp -d /dev/video0. If everything is working correctly, you should see something similar to:Preview mode: 640x480, yuv420.m_width 640, m_height 480, m_sizeimage 462848, m_padded_width:640, bytesperline 640Saving file: Image-video2-640x480-0.yuv420Saving file: Image-video2-640x480-1.yuv420Saving file: Image-video2-640x480-2.yuv420

We have received that error before. This error occurs when the steps needed to use the camera were not completed successfully or if the camera was disconnected at the time the board was powered.Please let us know in detail, what previous configuration steps you have done so far and what guides have you followed prior to using the command we recommended. We want to know if all the steps required were completed. If the problem is related to the camera being disconnected, turn off your board, then connect the camera and then power it back on so it can be recognized.The capture_example is the name of the name of the file you have to run in order to test the camera. This file doesn’t necessarily need to be called this way.